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G. J. CLINE.

BRUSH HANDLE ATTACHMENT.

No. 368,070. Patented Aug.'9, 1887.

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BRUSH HANDLE ATTACHMENT.

No. 368,870. PatentedAug. 9, 1887.

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A TORNEYS UNITED STATES vPATENT OEEIcE.

GEORGE J. CLINE, OF GOSHEN, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO L. H. NOBLE AND J. M. NOBLE, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

BRUSH-HANDLE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 368,070, dated August 9, 1887.

Application tiled January 6, 1887. Serial No. 223,518. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: lugs M M. This pivotbolt N is headed at one Be it known that I, GEORGE J. CLINE, a end, and the other end projects to receive a 55 citizen of the United States, and a resident of securingnut, P, by which it is retained in its Goshen, in the county of Elkhart and State of seat to provide thejoint Q, by which the han- 5 Indiana, have invented certain new and useful dle is permitted to be turned to the desired Improvements in Brush-Handle Attachments; angle with relation to the brush to enable the and I do declare the following to be a full, operator to use the brush without being re- 6o clear, and exact description of the invention, lquired to kneel or to assume unnecessarilysuch as will enable others skilled in the art to tiring positions in operating the brush. By

Io which it appertains to make and use the same, this means of arranging the shouldered plates reference being had to the accompanying drawand the shouldered button on the 'brush-plate B ings, and f' to letters or figures of reference the brush-handle may be readily attached and 65 marked thereon,which form apartofthis specidetached. The handle may b e also turned to fication. cause the disk to describe a circle or part of a I5 Figure l of the drawings is a representation circle by simply turning the button out of enof my invention and is a perspective view of gagement with the disk -while the handle is in the same. Fig. '2 is a vertical longitudinal a vertical position, orin ahorizontal position, 70 section. Fig. 8 is a top view with the brushor while the handle is in any position inter handle removed, and Figs. 4 and 5 are detail mediate of the vertical and horizontal posi- 2o views. tions. In fact,thelatitudeofadjustmentgiven My invention relates to brush-handle atto the handle by this construction is such as to tachments for scrubbing-brushes and the like; permit the brush to be used in almost any re- 75 and it consists in the construction and novel quired position. After the adjustment has combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth. been made the button is again turned into en- 2 5 Referring by letter to the accompanying gagement with the disk. Furthermore, the drawings,A designates the body of the brush, handle and disk attachment may be removed lin which the bristles are secured in any of the by simply turning the button or thumb-nut in 8o ways commonly practiced in the manufacture the proper direction, so that the brush may be of brushes. used without the handle, if necessary or de- 30 B is the covering for the back of the brushsirable.

body proper, said covering being secured to Thesecuring-nutPmaybeturned up sotightthe brush-body A by nails or screws. ly as to hold the brush rigidly at any angle to 85 C and D are shouldered plates, which are which it may have been adjusted, if it should rigidly secured to the brush-plate B. prove desirable to so hold the brush; or the 35 E is abutton, which has a shoulder, F, on nut may be so loosened as to permit the brush one end, and in other respects is similar to an to swing easily on its pivot-bolt, so that it ordinary thumb-nut, except that its eye is not will accommodate itself to the lioor when the 9o threaded. This button is securedin place by, latter is being scrubbed. The brush-handle ascrew, G, upon which it is turned to move it attachment may therefore be changed from a 4o into the locked or unlocked positions. hinged attachment to a rigid attachment, or it II is a metal dislgwhich is provided with an Amay be removed entirely when desirable. upwardly-projecting stud, I, said stud I hav- Having described this invention, I cla-im 95 ing an eye, K, made transversely through it The combination, with a brush provided near its upper end. with shouldered plates and a shouldered but- 45 L designates a tang, which is secured in a ton on its back, of a handle provided with a seat or socket in the lower end of the brushhinged disk at its lower end, substantially as handle by a rivet passed transversely through specified. Ioo the handle and through an eye or perforation In testimony whereof Iafx my signature in in the upper end of the tang. The tang'L is presence of two witnesses.

5o slightly enlarged at its lower end, and is pro- GEORGE J. CLINE.

vided with projecting lugs M M, between Witnesses: which the upper end of the stud I is hinged Jos. H. DEEREEs, Jr., upon a pivot-bolt, N, having its bearings in the MYRoN E. MEADER. 

